ftrace: add quick function trace stop

Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index 28b597ef9ca1..9134de814c97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1157,6 +1157,9 @@ ENTRY(mcount)
 END(mcount)
 
 ENTRY(ftrace_caller)
+        cmpl $0, function_trace_stop
+        jne  ftrace_stub
+
         pushl %eax
         pushl %ecx
         pushl %edx
@@ -1180,6 +1183,9 @@ END(ftrace_caller)
 #else /* ! CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */
 
 ENTRY(mcount)
+        cmpl $0, function_trace_stop
+        jne  ftrace_stub
+
         cmpl $ftrace_stub, ftrace_trace_function
         jnz trace
 .globl ftrace_stub